brocading

plural brocadings

1. The pattern or decoration made by brocading.

   "Versions of Herat rugs made in Isfahan in the time of Shah Abbas have, in most cases, deep colors-dark red in the field, dark blue in the border-and a brocading of metal threads"

   1973, Dimand and Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 71

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   the opening of the robe shows an under-dress of very beautiful shaded lutestring, the ground of which is white, but it is enriched with shades and brocadings of every possible colour.

   1864, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, page 218

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of brocade